NOTES., ETC, RELATING TO FAMILIES OF PARKER. 45 
In consideration of a marriage intended to be had 
and solemnized between said John Parker the 
younger and Elizabeth Roberts, dau. of Geffrey 
Roberts gent. deceased,* and for a jointure for the 
said Elizabeth in case she should survive the said 
John Parker the younger, and for a jointure to be 
likewise made for the said Anne, in case she survives 
the said John Parker the elder her husband, it was 
agreed to levy a fine of all the messuages lands &c. 
of the said John Parker the elder and Anne, and 
John Parker the younger, in Little Norton and 
Norton aforesaid, such fine to ensure as to “the 
Hall or Fierhouset of the nowe mansion house of the 
said John Parker the elder in Little Norton aforesaid 
- with the entry leading into the same, the parlor on 
the south side of the said hall, the chambers over the 
said hall parlor and entry the buttery and milkhouse 
adjoining to the said hall, all the outhouses and 
buildings standing on the south side of the said 
fould, the moitie or one halfe of the kitchen, the 
a ee 
* “The marriage with Elizabeth Roberts brought the family of Parker into 
no very distant alliance with the Morewoods, one of the most ancient Hallam- 
_ Shire families, and who were at that time accumulating great wealth by 
__ commerce at London and in Derbyshire. She was also allied by her mother 
Gertrude Morewood with other families of gentry in and about Norton, or, 
more generally, in the country around Sheffield.” (Mr. Hunter, in letter to 
Mr. Jackson.) 
+ This expression occurs in a deed, 6th July, 1680—‘** All that ancient 
messuage or firehouse, wherein one Christopher Moorhouse now dwelleth, and 
_ also one firehouse called Broomhouse, &c. Also all that ancient messuage or 
_ firehouse wherein one John Briggs now dwelleth &c., situate at Netherdale in 
_ the county of York.” 
In a paper ‘On the Sanitary State of England during the Middle Ages,” 
_ by James Russell, M.D., Birmingham (British Medical Journal, No. 268, p. 
169), it is said—‘‘ The house included a hall, often of considerable dimensigns, 
_to which indeed from its occupying the principal position in importance the 
inclusive term of ‘ domus’ or ‘ house’? was sometimes SP DME oc. 25 on eces In the 
Middle Ages, the hall,—the ‘great house place "—was situated either on the 
am floor, or frequently over a lower vaulted slory, which was sometimes 
sunk in the ground, and was variously used as a store room, brewery, or 
even when purposes of defence rendered it necessary, as astable. In farm-houses 
_ it was appropriated to the use of the cattle. The hall, as already stated, was the 
chief feature in the edifice throughout the Middle Ages, and indeed after their 
close ; hence, the term became vernacularly extended, in Saxon and Norman 
